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The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1887-07-21
MINERAL MATTERS.
Professor Roessler Gives His Views
on Texas Minerals.
BLUFFToN, July D, 1851
To the Editor of The Statesman.

BLUFFToN, July 3, 1887
To the Editor of The Statesman.
For years the mining industry of this
country has had reason to complain OF tne
Indifference of the state government IN
regard to its importance and develop
ment. Practically, no encouragement or
protection has been given by our national
legislators to mining and the Development
of the vast mineral resources which are SO
valuable and important. Thousands OF
dollars have been lost in prospecting IN
Llano, Mason, Burnett and adjoining
counties at the expense of the miner, but
Notwithstanding all the obstacles, IN addl-
ton to the other difficulties surrounding
the prosecution of this business, mining
as a productive industry in the before
named localities, has gradually forced Its
way to the front now, and, by the value OF
its indestructible products, has demon
strated it's magnitude and Importance.
During the past two or three years the
financial depression existing throughout
the country has had marked influence,
and has largely decreased the volume OF
capital seeking the investment IN this
direction, but during the past few months
great improvement has been noted
throughout the wide extent of our mining
territory, and activity has touched with
newlight hundreds of promising locallties.
Messrs. G. w. Angle & Co., of San An
tonic, backed by the iron millionaire, or
millionaire iron king, G. W. Wakeheld, OF
Wisconsin, equipped an efficient corps OF
mining engineers, and commenced opera
tions, and located and secured twenty-five
thousand acres of valuable min
erat lands, mostly by actual purchase and
partly by lease, Cor cash, and are now
importing machinery to the places OF
mining operations, which are situated
twelve miles northwest of Llano town, on
Johnson's or Erskine's creek, eight miles
southeast of the same place on the waters
of Stroud creek and Waters branch. From
this it seems that the tedious season of de-
preston is ended, home and foreign capt.
tai again begins to seek investment, and
Offering, as they do, every indictment to
secure means to develop our neglected re-
sources. The greatest interest has been
especially manifested in the exploration
of iron and manganese ores, which we're
found IN inexhaustible quantities and of
the finest qualities in the world. Accord
to Prof. Everhart, the Llano ore, in prog
ress of working, is partly magnetic and
partly specular oxide of iron, the impure
ties being exceptionally small. This ore
is remarkable, and will certainly make
Texas one of the most i'm portant iron pro-
ducing countries in the world. The fol-
lowing is the complete analysis of the ore,
made by DR.. Edgar Everhart of the State
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Reforms IN the House of Lords.

Reforms IN the House of Lords.
From the Times Democrat.
A bill was read in the house of lords
last week, of which little notice has been
taken in this country, but which, never
theless, is of great Importance and signi
tcance. By majority of eleven, the peers
of England abolished primogeniture in
cases OF intestacy. Hencetorward-if the
bill successfully passes all its stages, as
presumably it will-the succession of an
eldest son to his fathers estate is no longer
a matter of course in Great Britain. To
secure such succession the testator will be
compelled to expressly will his estate to
his eldest son. Hitherto, to prevent the
succession of the eldest to the exclusion OF
his brothers and sisters, it was necessary
for the testator to divide his property by
will. Thus the sole succession of the
eldest was recognized as a just and
natural event. This bill entirely reverses
the case, and recognizes the equal right of
all the children to share in the parents
property. The bill does not, il d BED, affect
entailed estates; But its passage through
the house of lords, which owes its exist
ence to the law of primogeniture, is
noteworthy event.
The house of lords has always, and nat
urally,been the stronghold of conservatism
in England But indications have not
been wanting of late that a spirit of lib
eralism is making Roadway in the upper
house. Some of the reforms have prob
ably been accepted with no very good
grace. But, as the London Times OBJ
serves: "The lords must endure the
mending of the conservatives if they
would escape the ending of the radicals"
A few months ago. the lords passed q
bill making those judges who are entitled
to seat in their house, life members of
it, This act was regarded by the Times
as the first stroke of doom to the house
of peers. At the least, it is the first step
toward a reconstruction of the house on a
new basis. The time is still probably far
distant when the upper house of the Brit
ish parliament will be senate of the type
existing in France or the United States.
But there can be little doubt that before
many years have passed we shall see it
differently constituted assembly, and that
its new formation will be more in accord
than the old house with the spirit of the
age.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1887-07-21
TEXAS IN THE SUMMER.

wall is going up from the north on
account of the "frightful mortality of the
heat" Deaths from sun stroke and
other direful effects of a northern sun are
of daily record in the papers of that
section. And yet people flock from
Texas, where a case of sun stroke Is
hardly ever heard of, to that climate
where they are things, on some days, OF
hourly occurrence. We have on the gull
coast beautiful summer resorts and
beach whose surf is not excelled by any
watering place in the union. Then' why
this annual exodus from such pleasures
and comforts into tho realm OF
such heat and dangers! True the Their
mometer seeks higher average register
in the scale of thermal degrees here than
IN the north, but there is not as much
suffering and that sense OF oppression
from the heat here as there. The nights
here are delightfully."- cool and invigorat-
ing, and reft man with energy for the
morrow. There man, after restless
sleep in the sitting heat but little lessened
from that of the day before, wakes to an
other day wearied and depressed
and wholly unfit for the days
work and swelter. Unless the noun
aims and exclusively seaside re-
sorts of the north are sought out
,y these southern travellers for health and
pleasure, a trip north during the summer
months is worse than idle-it is a bore
md a waste of money and of energy.
This fashion, that has so unfortunately
,een set, takes thousands of dollars each
summer from Texas, and the people who
spend it are but poorly repaid for their
outlay. Our gulf cities, like Galveston
Ind Corpus Christi, famed by ceaseless
,reeze, should cater for this summer
ravel and turn it in their direction. 1t
would help those towns, advertise the
tate, and be the source of infinite pleas
ire to many people who now think in
ummer they can only find comfort III
he north.
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Unwise Yet Imperative Fashion

From the New York Herald.
While New Workers are fleeing from the
heat to come to European cities, the latter
are, in turn, being depopulated-and for
the same reason.
Paris, for one is reported as "out of
town." and the press, as we'll as that less
fortunate class which must remain at its
post, is bemoaning the fact, for reasons as
various as they are obvious. One journal
says there are 9S,742 shade trees in the
capital, and it wonders why the queen of
Cities" with trees enough to protect from
the suns rays the complexion of nearly
half million fair Parisiennes, should be
deserted Just at the time when it looks its
prettiest in its summer attire.
WE'LL the migration of the butterflies OF
fashion from comfortable homes and soft
beds to weatherboard shanties, hard beds
and equally hard bread, is thing which
prevails in all large cities, although it has
no other raison d'etre than the supposed
necessity of following the crowd. 1t is
game of "follow your leader" as it were.
You must be out of town not to be out OF
fashion in summer. Such is fashions
edict, and fashion allows no tritiing.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1887-07-21

PEOPLE in the north are already COM
planning of the heat. A dispatch says
yesterday the temperature in Minnesota
was like flame coming up from the
ground. This may be of benefit to the
Minnesotians, as it will toug hen them to
stand the temperature in the hereafter.
Looks like there is going to be an cpl
demic of sunstroks in the northern
cities. In Pittsburg there we're two fatal
cases yesterday; in Cincinnati four; in
Chicago five; workmen in the sun had to
quit work. In the meantime, down here in
Texas, the humid gulf breeze keeps us frigid
and the sunstroke is unheard Of. And yet
many of our people are hurrying from
our own cool summer paradise to the
northern bake-oyen where the sunstroke
RACES like yellow fever in Key West.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1887-07-21

TIE accommodation sentence will
weigh lighter on DR.. McGlynn than upon
most ousted Catholics, for he says,being a
priest, and deeming himself still such, in
spite of his sentence of expulsion from
the church, if he can find no priest to ad-
minister the sacrament to him he will ad-
minister it to himself. What effect this
additional defiance of the church will
have it is not known, but it presents a
unique piece of disobedience, buoyed up
by an indulgence in the greatest consola-
ton known to a true Catholic.
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"What Drug Will Scour These
English Hence?"

Wicked Macbeth, who murdered good
King Duncan, asked this question in his
despair. Thousands of victims of disease
are daily asking "What will scour the i'm
purities from my blood and bring me
health?" DR.. Pierce's Golden Medical
Discovery will do it. When the purple
life tide is sluggish, causing drowsiness,
headache and loss of appetite, use this
wonderful vitalizer, which never fails. 1t
forces the liver into perfect action, drives
out superfuous bile, brings the glow of
health to the cheek and the natural
sparkle to the eye. All druggists.
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metals and the products of her vine

metals and the products of her vine
yards.
The San Francisco trade will be aug
mented by direct lines of steamers to ia
pan, Canton and British India, freighted
with teas and products of these countries,
which will go over the Southern Pacific
railway to the pier en- route to London and
New York, the great centers of the worlds
commerce.
The introduction of merchandise from
the north Atlantic cities will land here for
distribution in Texas, Mexico, Colorado,
Utah, Arizona, the Indian Territory, Kan
sas and California.
Coffee from Brazil and Vera Cruz, trop-
ical fruits from Mexico and Central Amer
lea can be put into Chicago twelve hours
sooner than through any other gulf port.
Here will be the coaling station for steam
ers, drawing coal from the Rio Sabinas,
not over $50 miles distant. This COM
MERGE will be met and carried by the fol-
lowing railways, viz: The st. Louis &
Texas, the Rock Island d Chicago, the
Atchison, Topeka g. Santa Fe, the Fort
Worth g. Denver, the New York, Texas
& Mexican, the San Antonio & Arkansas
Pass, and the Mexican National. The
last two railway lines are now finished to
Corpus Chris ii, and all will seek deep
water outlet on the coast of the Cuff of
Mexico.
We beg to assure of our moral and ma
terial support in this great work, and de-
sire to express to you our belief that your
plans for constructing e harbor on our
coast, where nature has failed to provide
one, will prove grand and splendid sue
cess.
c. G. Heath, Mayor G. G.
s. W. Rankin,
Geo. S. Evans,
Thos. B. Southgate.
I. p. Rivera,
Ed. A. Born,
d. G. w. Westervelt,
James Hickey,
l.. Seeligson,
W. S. Rankin,
w. P. Caruthers.
JOHN WILLETT.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1887-07-21

The San Antonio Express thinks Robert
T. Lincoln will be the republican nominee
for president in 'SS. The prestige of an
honored name counts for very great
deal, but in this instance the son of Abe
Lincoln lacks the essential prerequisites
of ability to piece out the dignity and in
fiuence his name and being the son of his
father give him. There is more senti-
ment than real earnestness in these at
tsmpts 10 boom Robert Lincoln for the
presidency, and perhaps it might be better
for the name and fame of his father if his
name was forever dropped out from poll
tics.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1887-07-21
THE HAWAIIAN TROUBLE.

The difficulty between King Kalskaua
and his people, arising out of his refusal
to accept the new constitution bestowing
suffrage on foreigners, seems likely TO
result in changes of considerable interest
to Americans. Fresh interest has been
awakened in the Hawaiian group.
The total population Of the eight
islands Of the group is about 10000. OF
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1887-07-21
A Pleasure Shared by Women Only

Malherbe, the gifted French author, de-
clared that of all things that man pos
sesses, women alone take pleasure in be-
ing possessed. This seems generally true
of the sweeter sex. Like the ivy plant,
she longs for an object to cling to and
love-to look to for protection. This be
ing her prerogstive, ought she not be told
that DR.. Pierce's Fsvorite Prescription is
the physical salvation of her sex? 1t
banishes those distressing maladies that
make her life burden, curing all painful
irregularities, uterine disorders, infam-
nation and liberation, prolapus and kin
dred weaknesses. As nervine, it cures
nervous exhaustion, prostration, debility,
relieves mental anxiety and hypochondria,
and promotes refreshing sleep.
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this some $4,000 are natives, the balance

this some $4,000 are natives, the balance
! Chinese, japanese, Americans, English
and few Germans and Portuguese.
The chief agricultural article is sugar,
of which about 10000 tons are annually
ex ported. Coffee, corn and wheat are also
raised. Lying south of the latitude of
Texas the climate is fine, the mean
annual temperature being 70 Q the mean
temperature of the coolest month being
62 Q and the hottest 81 ., from observa-
tions extending over five years. For the
same period the mean annual rainfall
was SO to 40 inches.
The government, which it is evidently
the intention to change or over
throw, is constitutional monarchy.
The legislature, single body, consists OF
twenty mobiles, appointed blythe king, and
twenty-elght representatives, elected by
the people. A man can't vote unless he
has an income of seventy-fve dollars.
The islands were discovered by Captain
Cook, in 1878. Being the first white man
they had ever seen, the natives wor-
shipped, and the priests said their prayers
to him. The chief who ruled Hawaii
when visited by Cook, who was killed
in the islands, was succeeded by
Kamehameha l., an able and ener-
getic prince, who did much to ad-
vance the islands toward civilization. He
conquered and consolidated the islands
under monarchy, and died in 1919 He
was succeeded by Kamehameha H., IN
whose reign the missionaries made their
advent.
The reigning monarch, Kalakaua, was
elected by ballot in 1874, King Lunalilo
having died without heirs. BY the treaty
of 1874 Great Britain, France and the
United States guaranteed the independ-
ence of these islands, which may cut some
figure in the present troubles at Honolulu.
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THE GAINESVILLE TRAGEDY.

No wonder the whole state has been
shocked at this, one of the foulest, most
infamous cowardly and satanic crimes
ever perpetrated in the southwest or any
where else. Whatever the motive-and
there must have been motive-the butch
cry of Misses Bostick and Watkins, the
cutting and slashing of their young faces,
the burying of the sharp hatchet in their
skulls, exceeds in fiendish cruelty the deeds
of the demons of darkness themselves.
The utterly heartless diabolism, the cold
blooded deliberation of this damnable
crime, is not surpassed by the deepest
villainies or the darkest assassinations in
the criminal annals of this or any other
country.
There ia one point about this most ter
terrible and mysterious affair that merits
special notice.. Misses Bostick and Wat
kins were both wounded in nearly the
same anatomical region. Each was
struck about the temple over the right
eye, on the frontal bone. The assas-
sin aimed at the head, face and brain.
These young ladies were struck in the
same part of the head as the eight wo-
men and girls who were assassinated in
Austin at intervals in the course of the
year 1885. Nearly all were hit on the
right side of the head and face,
and, as in the Gainesville case,
the same sharp instrument, supposed
in some instances to be hatchet,in Others
known to have been an axe, was used.
The murderous assault on Misses Bos-
tick and Watkins seems to have been made
in the same mysterious silence. No outcry,
although there is evidence that Miss Wat
kins engaged in terrific struggle with
her asssilant, These young ladies received
their death blows in their beds,at the same
hour of a moonlight night, as the Austin
victims did. About the only difference was,
the Gainesville assassin did not drag
out the senseless forms of his
victims as was done in almost
every instance in the servant girl
murders. This may be mere coinci-
dence. But the remarkable similarity
of these murders with other and subse-
quent mysterious assassinations of women
at San Antonio, and several IN distant
states, that have never been cleared up,
is at least, worthy of note. As in the
servant girl assassinations-in no in
stance has the slightest clue, no shred of
evidence has been left behind to identify
or track The mysterious murderers.
Is there not possibility that all these
dreadful butcheries of women in the
last year or two might be the
work of some travelling fiend
some wandering and bloody demon, who
stops in place long enough to accom-
plish his devilish work?
One thing is certain. The Gainesville
tragedy warns the good people of this
state that the time has come when crime
in Texas must be put down. We must
punish it promptly, determinedly and
without mercy, which the Gainesville
fiend found no time to bestow on Misses
Bostick and Watkins. We must hang our
murderers. Until that is done, and dread
of death seizes the murderously inclined
such dreadful affairs as the Gainesville
horror will always be possible and even
| imminent
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The manganese ore deposits, which are
in the immediate vicinity of the iron ore
localities, and more valuable than iron
ores, are also secured, being used in i'm
mense quantities for producing ferro-
manganese or high grade, and spiegel
iron, and indispensable in the manufacture
of steel, they will be great consideration.
Samples assayed by Professor Everhart
contain very little foreign matter, es-
pecially very little iron, the presence of
which is Objectionable. They show an
amount of available oxygen correspond
ing to CLIP per cent. of black oxide of
manganese MN. o 2.) According to the
analysis of this distinguished savant the
nra raoIlu contains.
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INSANITY has been discovered among
the immediate blood relations of Harrer,
of Fidelity Bank fame. 1t was thought 1t
would be so. The popularity of insanity
in America is that its victims Away either
want to murder or swindle somebody. A
real, genuine, innocent variety of insanity
would be rare find.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1887-07-21

Coal, kaOlin, mica, asbestus, fire and
poters clays, photographic stone and
other mineral deposits, have not been
overlooked, with the view to open them
up at once. From this important move it
seems that the time has come in which
the confidence of foreign capitalists in
the security and safety of investment in
this country is re-established.
A. R. RoEssLER, M. Z.
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Believers in witches still inhabit the
state of New York. 1t would not be sur
prising if it should presently appear that
there are suspicious as to the Suns cat.
At least, horseshoe or two over the
editorial doors would do hahn, especially
il the cat is black.
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